Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...generation," went an all too typical passage, "the Poopers had zealously clung to the truths which made them free. Namely, snoozing and boozing ... The Poopers were congenital shiners of moon, which is to say, hootch hustlers, which is to say, distillers of illegal whisky." When one of them, young Jake Kertuffel, was sent into town to trade in the family jalopy on a new car, he was swindled into accepting a pile of beans on the assurance that a money tree would grow from them. It did, of course, making Fairy Tale a sort of Jake and the moneystalk...
...pages of pictures and prose about hillbillies. Segal tells the story of a hick kid who goes into the big city to buy a used car from a dealer named Happy Humphrey, gets swindled, but through an ironic twist of fate wins out in the end. Happy Humphrey trades Jake Kertuffel a handful of lima beans (from which a money tree is supposed to grow) for the Model T in which the Kertuffel clan has sent its scion into the city. Ironically, a money tree springs up, and the Kertuffels buy a Cadillac with some of their money. Happy Humphrey...
Harvard's Bob Goodenow and Green defensement Jake Johnston were sitting down for roughing when Crimson center Jim McMahon fired in the second Harvard goal at 19:49 of the second period. Wingman Teddy Thorndike blasted the puck at Proulx who made a fine save and then had no chance on McMahon's rebound shot from directly in front...
...Safety Jake Scott, who intercepted two key passes, one in the end some, was voted the game's most valuable player...
Helping out in defense will be Dartmouth's captain Dana Johnson and junior Paul Dixon, the Big Green's top pairing. Jim Edgeworth, the team's second leading scorer with 13 points, and Jake Johnston will also be back on defense...